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If you are looking for an affordable, powerful and reliable alternative to Windows then please give Linux a try. There are many versions available. Most free for downloading or at a reasonable price packaged and on a CD. I chose Mandrake-Linux because it comes with an office package, it is easy to use (The KDE interface is easy to learn if your used the Macintosh or Windows GUI's). My first time installing Linux took about 15 minutes from blank hard drive to an actual boot of Linux. I believe Windows 95 takes around 45 minutes for a re-install?

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Need to pass files back and forth from a Linux to Windows partition? Simple! Just boot into your Linux partition and then (The # is your shell prompt for display purposes only):

# mkdir /Windows
# mount /DEV/HDA3 /Windows

Once this is done, the directory /Windows will be at the root of HDA3. If your windows partition is somewhere else just change the numbers to correspond. Its as easy as that! Linux works well with both Linux's file system and Windows.

Having a problem getting your plug and play modem to work with Linux? Well who is'nt! Some of the newer Kernels support PNP better than the older ones. Here is a work around I got off the web:
First off you'll want to know where your modem is installed. PNP likes to change things around sometimes so if your modem stops working re-try these steps. First off you'll want to be logged in as root as you will have to change things around a bit. And from your shell prompt (The #'s arent to be typed. This is your shell prompt!):

# cat /proc/pci
This will give you information on your modem. Your modem will likely be listed as a "Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device." What we need for information from this list will be the IRQ number and the "I/O at." Write these numbers down somewhere.
# setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 12 port 0xd400 autoconfig
If /dev/ttyS1 is used for your mouse or another serial port use 0, 2, or 3 instead. Of course the IRQ number might not be 12. Just use whatever your list had in it. The port address will also correspond to what was in your list. From this point on /dev/ttyS1 should work as your modem but there is more to do.
# rm -f /dev/modem
This command will remove your old modem setting.
# ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem
This last command will link your /dev/modem to whatever ttys port you used.

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